Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Heartbeat

I know people who have permanently
saved voicemail messages from deceased loved ones. These people sometimes play the message so
they can hear their loved ones once more. I have
seen several television documentaries about the families of 9/11 victims and
the spate of emotions surrounding that tragic event. A few of the families still keep voicemail
recordings of final, unanswered phone calls placed by loved ones trapped inside
the doomed Twin Towers.

But imagine hearing the
heartbeat of someone you love long after they have died. I am not talking about hearing a recording of
the heartbeat. I am talking about
listening to their actual heart beating in real time.